{"id":68435,"date":"2026-03-08T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/mikaela-shiffrin-extends-world-cup-lead-with-rare-super-g-start-as-curtoni-sets-record\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:23","slug":"mikaela-shiffrin-extends-world-cup-lead-with-rare-super-g-start-as-curtoni-sets-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/mikaela-shiffrin-extends-world-cup-lead-with-rare-super-g-start-as-curtoni-sets-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikaela Shiffrin extends World Cup lead with rare super-G start as Curtoni sets record"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Rival Emma Aicher fails to finish Sunday\u2019s race<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>35-year-old Elena Curtoni sets record with win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mikaela Shiffrin moved closer to a sixth career World Cup overall title on Sunday after a rare start in the super-G, a race her closest rival Emma Aicher did not finish.<\/p>\n<p>Shiffrin placed 23rd in the race won by 35-year-old Elena Curtoni, who would have set a series of World Cup age records for women but for the recent comeback of 41-year-old Lindsey Vonn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/08\/mikaela-shiffrin-extends-world-cup-lead-with-rare-super-g-start-as-curtoni-sets-record\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rival Emma Aicher fails to finish Sunday\u2019s race 35-year-old Elena Curtoni sets record with win Mikaela Shiffrin moved closer to a sixth career World Cup overall title on Sunday after a rare start in the super-G, a race her closest rival Emma Aicher did not finish. Shiffrin placed 23rd in the race won by 35-year-old &#8230; <a title=\"Mikaela Shiffrin extends World Cup lead with rare super-G start as Curtoni sets record\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/mikaela-shiffrin-extends-world-cup-lead-with-rare-super-g-start-as-curtoni-sets-record\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mikaela Shiffrin extends World Cup lead with rare super-G start as Curtoni sets record\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}